Akanksha Nitture took to tennis when she was just five year old. Her father, a tennis player himself, quit his job and took to coaching, with an aim to train his daughter. Thirteen years later, she played the biggest match of her ITF career thus far and that too with an upset victory over her experienced rival and eighth seed
By Saurabh Singh | AITA Hungarian teenager Zsombor Velcz defeated American third seed Dusty H. Boyer in the singles final of the ITF Men’s $15,000 Gurugram to lift the champion’s trophy yesterday. The tournament, which began on 22nd November in Haryana’s Gurugram city, came to conclusion with a fitting finale which produced an enthralling battle where the 19-year-old Velcz won
By Saurabh Singh | AITA Indian junior Shruti Ahlawat and Kazakhstan’s Max Batyutenko won their singles finals against Vaishnavi Adkar and Yuvan Nandal, respectively, to emerge champions in the singles category of the ITF J4 New Delhi event held from 22nd to 27th November 2021 at RK Khanna Tennis Stadium in New Delhi. Ahlawat won her title in an enthralling
India’s Ramkumar Ramanathan won his maiden Challenger level singles title on Sunday, 12 years after turning a Pro, when he outplayed Evgeny Karlovskiy in the summit clash of the ATP 80 Manama event, here in Bahrain. The 27-year-old Ramkumar, who had lost six Challenger finals in his career before, beat his Russian rival 6-1 6-4 in 68 minutes. Ramkumar, seeded
Renne Singla and Laalitya Kalluri scored upset victories to enter the second round of the qualifiers of the ITF Women’s $15,000 Bengaluru on Sunday. While Renne sent the fourth seed Smriti Bhasin home with a 6-4, 7-5 win, Laalitya won against sixth-seeded Niditra Rajmohan in three sets 6-1, 2-6, 10-6. Renne, the 17-year-old lass from Haryana depended on her deep
Sharmada Balu who finished as the runner-up in the National Championship this year and current U-18 India No.1 Reshma Maruri have been has awarded a wildcard by the KSLTA for the upcoming ITF Women’s $15,000 Bengaluru to be played at the KSLTA Stadium from November 28. Hon. Secretary of KSLTA, Maheshwar Rao while announcing the wildcards here on Thursday said:
The All India Tennis Association (AITA) announces seven ITF World Tennis Tour events, carrying total prize money of $115,000, scheduled to be held in February and March in India. The events will be held at seven cities – Jhajjar, Gurugram, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, New Delhi, Bhopal and Bengaluru, in that order, with first four events being Women’s and the last three
By Saurabh Singh | AITA Indian juniors Vaishnavi Adkar and Aditya Nandal won their singles finals against Ruma Gaikaiwari and Yuvan Nandal, respectively, to emerge champions in the singles category of the ITF J5 Guwahati event held from 15th to 20th November 2021 in Guwahati, Assam. Adkar won her match in straight sets 6-2, 6-1 while Nandal was stretched to
By Saurabh Singh | AITA French third seed Valetin Vacherot defeated Aussie teenager Philip Sekulic in the singles final of the ITF Men’s $15,000 New Delhi to lift the champion’s trophy yesterday. The tournament, which began on 15th November at the RK Khanna Tennis Stadium in New Delhi, came to conclusion with a fitting finale which produced an enthralling battle
By Saurabh Singh | AITA India’s Manish Sureshkumar triumphed over Aussie teenager Philip Sekulic in a three set battle to be crowned as the singles champion at the ITF Men’s $15,000 tournament held from 8th to 14th November at Indore Tennis Club in Indore. 22 year old Sureshkumar won the match 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 to lift the second ITF singles